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THE 



PROCEEDINGS 



UNION MEETING, 



BREWSTER'S HALL, 



OCTOBER 24, 1850. , v o , 

PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE 
"UNION SAFETY COMMITTEE. 11 




■ » NEW HAVEN: 
PRINTED BY WILLIAM H. STANLEY. 



1851. 



M ' 



THE 

GREAT UNION MEETING 

AT NEW HAVEN. 



An earnest desire having been expressed by many of the citizens of Now 
Haven, that the sentiments of the great mass of our people, in reference to 
the compromise or peace measures, recently passed by Congress, should be 
embodied in some tangible form and made public, as a matter of justice to 
themselves, and foi the purpose of cheering the hearts and strengthens 

f the Union in every part of our wide-spread and 
gloriou a number of preliminary meetings were held in the 

Common Council Chamber, a call for a great public meeting agreed 
and all the necessary arrangements made efficiently to carry oui 
object. 

On the evening of December 24, A. D. 1850, a large audience, composed 
of our most substantial citb abled in Brewster's Hall, and though 

fore differing as wide! ch other in their political viev 

their pursuits, but one thought, one sentiment, one feeling prevailed— I 
fidelity to the Constitution and its Compromises, and a faithful adherence to 
the Laws — while tity of the Union was 

silently to Heaven. The voice of that Meeting is the voice of New Haven — 
it spoke the true sentiments of our citizens; and as it goes abroad through 
our State, breaking the stillness of the valleys, and echoing among the hills, 
we trust that answering voices will every where come back to us, declaring 
in no doubtful language that the Union must and shall be preserved. 



\& 



THE CALL, AND SIGNATURES. 



The undersigned, believing that any alteration of the 
COMPROMISE MEASURES adopted at the last Session 
of Congress, is not only inexpedient, but that it is the duty 
of every good citizen of this Republic to support and vindi- 
cate the same ; do therefore recommend, that a public meet- 
ing of the Citizens of this place, without distinction of 
paett, be convened, to express our united determination; that 
the same shall be executed to their fullest extent, and our 
united opposition to any further agitation of the subject, or the 
subject of slaverv in any form. 



Charles A (water, 
Charles W. Allen, 
John Arnot, Jr. 
John ( i. Anthony, 
Willis M. Anthony, 
A A Hi-, 
J. N. Austin, 
I.. A. Arnold, 
John L. Ailing, 
David Allen 
Albert All in?, 
W. F. Alexander, 
John Arnold, 
J. M. Andrews, 
James Ackerly 
Wm. E. Allen, 
I-'.. I'.. And] 
George Abbott, 
Jesse Andrews, 
S. W. Alii-, 
L. E. Andrews, 
Henry Atwater 
Russell Ailing, 
Andrew Bryan, 
Benjamin Beechcr, Jr., 
Wm. D. Bryan, 
Samuel Bradley, > 
Charles Bradley, 
George Beers, 

C. G. Baldwin, 
P. Brockway, 

D. W. Butler, 



' . : water, Jr., 

S. L. Allen, 
George Anger, 
II. B. Allen, 
Charles J. Allen, 

\!>bott. 
William Austin, 
I!. Andi 

William Allen. 
jH. II. Austin, 
Jonathan Alii 
II. K.Arnold, 
M. B. Atwater, 
Benjamin Ailing, 
John B. Adriance, 

J. J. Atwat 
A. P. Atwater, 

o Adam-', 
1 

Ansel Austin, 
Asa K. Ailing, 
Isaac A 
Sherman A. Barrows, 

C. A. Ball, 
Oliver Bryan, 
Edward Bulkley, 
Henry Bradley, 
J. W. Bover, ' 
Truman Benedict. 

D. A. Benjamin, 
James Bogart, 



Atwater & Bassctt, 
H. P. Andri 
N. Ailing, 
W. H. Augur, 

DanielAuirur, 
I. F. Avery, 
L. C. Allen, 
M. Armstrong, 
E. Atwater, 
o. Alii 

William A. Atlee, 
Abner Austin, 
M. Andrews, 
J.S. Atwati 
H. M. Ailing, 
J. Atu a 

Ebenezer Arnold, 
John Anketell, 
C. S. Adams, 
Thomas Atwater, 
[saac Anderson, 
Leverett Ailing, 
James M. Andrews, 
Horace B* 1 
George E. Blakeslee, 

by P. i shop, 
Benjamin Booth, 
P. II. Bartholomew, 
Samuel H. Boyer, 
. W. Benedict, 

v' Brooks, 
Thomas W. Beecher, 



J. Barrea, 
J. Brinsmade. 
Charles Brocket, 
M. Beechcr, 
Riley Blakeslee, 
H. W. Brinsmade, 
E. W. Bedinger, 
Charles R. Baer, 
H. D. Beman, 
J. S. Branson, 
Douglas Barman, 
J. Ward Barnett, 
Alfred Bassett, 
Charles Bradley, 
David Bassett, 
J. S. Bardon, 
H. O. Beach, 
Thomas Burns, 
K. Biown, 
Isaac Bradley, 
W. S. Barnes, 
C. J. Belts, 
Alfred Bronson, 

C. Brassill, 
Elisha Blackman, 
H. M. Bidwell, 
E. B. Bills, 

E. A. Beach, 
I. W. Barker, 
Frederick Bulkley, 
A. Black, 
G. F. Bradley, 
S. H. Bishop, 
Timothy Barney, 
J. E. Baldwin, " 
William W. Boardman, 
J. Barnett, Jr., 
W. C. Bm! 
Alfred Blackman, 
Benjamin Beecher, 
Jonas B. Bowditch, 
Edwin B. Bowditch, 
E. Batram, 
H. Bulkley, 
Thomas Barnett, 
A. J. Beers, 
E.J. Baldwin, 
W. H. Brown, 
George Brown, 
Nathan Baldwin, 
Asa Budington, 
E. B. Bishop, 
Sherman Barnes, 
Hervey Bradley, 
J. S. Beecher, 
J. A. Bishop, 
Hervey Brown, 
E. A. Burgess, 
Levi Baldwin, 

D. E. Burwell, 
William Bishop, 



O. E. Baldwin, 
William Brooks, 
Willis Bunnell, 
Eugene Beardsley, 
George Bronson, 
J. W. Bradley, 
Silas Benham, 
M. Butiricks, 

B. W. Bellamv, 
H. H. Babcock, 
H. A. Battles, 
A. J. Burnham, 
J. G. Baird, 
George Benham, 

C. A. Brown, 
E. C. Beecher, 
Samuel Bishop, 
Jeremiah Bishop, 
Charles Bradley, 
Charles Beers, 
R. Barnes, 
Henry C. Buck. 
J. A. Blakeslee, 
L. E. Blakeslee, 
A. T. Burwell, 
Leverett Barnes, 
William Bishop, 
Charles Beers, 
John H. Booth, 
John Boylan, 
Charles Ba 
Lewis Baldwin, 
George Bradley, 
Stephen Barnes, 
William H. Barnes, 
L. If. G. Blohm, 
James Brewster, 
Charles G. Bostwick, 
M. Burns, 
William Burns, 
George Bulard, 

t : . Biering, 
Miles Baldwin, 
H. R. Bond, 
I. H. Beecher, 
William F. Bradley, 

W. Bull, 
Samuel M. Bassett, 
Jonas Bronson, 
W. H. Bassett, 
E. A. Bulkley, 
Richard Beach, 
George D. Bradley, 
William T. Bradley, 
William Buddington, 
G. C. Burch, 
Benjamin Bradley, 
Charles Bearesley, 
E. Buddington, 
John Baldwin, 
David Beach, 



William Baker, 
C. A. Bray, 
Patrick Botsford, 
James Bourke, 
H. E. Beach, 
Charles Baldwin, 
F. Bidwell, 

E. F. Bedell, 
Giles Bishop, 
Alanson Bryan, 
R. J. Brown, 
George Bishop, 
Samuel Betts, 
Thomas Bennett, 
lLouis L. Beecher, 

F. A. Bradley, 
Thomas Bishop, 
M. P. Baldwin, 
Miles Bristol, 
William P. Bostwick, 
J. P. Beers, 
Rodney Burton, 

E. W. Barnes, 
E. E. Beardsley, 
Zebul Bradley, 

E. M. Benham, 
R. H. Bradley, 
William H. Bradley, 
Nelson Burwell, 
William H.Baker, 
William B. Baldwin, 
.T. L. Bn 

15. Bassett, 
John D. Beecher, 
William C. Baldwin, 
William Boyd, 
Charles Bostwick, 
Sidney Babcock, 
Peter Barney, 

F. D. Bradley, 
S. Barnley, 
George Bartholomew, 
William Ba, 

T. W. Beecher, 
C. A. Bowers, 
A. H. Beecher, 
P. A. Buel, 
M. G. Bowditch, 
Willis Bristol, 
J. M. Blair, 
Samuel E. Barnes, 
Sherman Blair, 
Leander Buel, 
John S. Beach, 
William Baldwin. 
jGeorge Butler, 
J. W. Bowen, 
William Barbour, 
|Miles Bradley, 
!M. Ball, 
A Burr, 



A. D. Bear, 

C. B. Brown, 
E. E. Bassett, 
Henrv Baldwin, 
E. Blake, 
George Bassett, 
Bristol & Hall, 
Reuben Bunnell 
H. W. Bouton, 
R. Burritf, 
Rufus Booth, 
George S. Bradley, 
H. T. Batram. 

J. W. Bennett, 
Wyllis Barnes, 
Lewis Bassett, 
I. Blakeslee, 
Harry Croswell, 
Patrick Colwell, 

D. Carrington, 
J. F. Chatterton, 
A. T. Cooper, 
Henry L. Cannon, 
G. I. Cummings, 
T. Chope, 

C. C. Clinton, 
Francis Chatterton, 
John T. Collis, 
Solomon Collis, 
Thomas Chatterton, 
L. Candee, 
William T. Cannon, 
John H. Coley, Jr. 
Frederick Croswell, 
George L. Cannon, 
Hugh Caldwell, 
J. D. Chatfield. 
P. K. Cover. 
W. N. Coterell, 
J. G. Corbusier, 
Pierre Creed, 
William Canada, Jr., 

E. C. Chamberlain, 
S. Chamberlain, 

J. Chapman, 
M. C. Conwell, 
N. E. Candee, 
R. Carrington, 
A. M. Coal, 

0. A. Cook, 

1. F. Champlin, 
George Cooper, 
W. J. Chalker, 
Samuel Cooper, 
Eliphalet Cooper, 
R. Chapman, 
Robert Cottingham, 
Jeremiah Chalker, 
Thomas Cauldwell, 
Luke Campbell, 
Thomas Connell, 



A. Boardman, 
]C. Bartholomew, 
iG. H. Bostwick. 
John Bogart, 

D. W. Beecher, 
Henry Beecher, 
L. Brockett,l 
Ailing Brown, 
Charles Butler, 
J. B. Brainard, 
Daniel Bacon, 
Henry Bronson, 
W. N. Bartram, 
William Benedict, 
Hubbard Barnes, 
William E. Burwell, 
John H. Colev, 

E. Cutler, 

F. Cur ran, 
M. Curran, 

G. J. Cone, 
George Cooke, 
Samuel T. Cummings, 
E. S. Cone, 

W M. Clark, 

W.F.Clark, 

John Colburn, 

S.Collins, 

John B. Chidsev, 

D. P. Clark, 

J. K. Curtiss, 

D. Coney, 

P. S. Croffut, 
M. M. Camp, 
W. A. Comstock, 
William D. Curtiss, 
H. W. Cook, 
John Concklin, 

E. P. Church, 
James Creed, Jr. 
Joseph Canada, 
M. Chalker, 

B. W. Clark, 
James Cunningham, 
J. T. Clark, 

Zera Chapin, 
Anson Clark, 
W. J. Cunningham, 

C. Churchill, 

D. Campbell, 
H. Creighton, 
J. Chipman, 

J. T. Cosgrove, 
Philip Curtiss, 
Dorus Clark, 
J. F. Cooper, 
I George B. Curtiss 
| Isaac R. Cornwall, 
iJames K. Curtiss, 
!0. F. Case, 
i Anson T. Colt, 



iL. A. Bassett, 

C. D. Bassett, 

A. T. Blakeslee, 
Anson Belden, 
J. A. Blakeslee, 
W. Bunnell, 

iR. G. Babcock, 
|A. H. Beecher, 
!Otis Belden, 
|0. C. Beers, 
Edward Bromley, 
George I. Bui ford, 
P. W. Ball, 
iJames Barnes, 
; Henry R. Barnes, 

!h. Combs, 
|A. Clay, 
M. Colben, 
]S. Conley, 
T. Craven, 
Jesse Crane, 
IWillard Chenery, 
G. H.Cone, 
Lyman Chipman, 
H. P. Crofut, 
W. Carr, 
J. N. Collins, 
H. Clark, 

Charles W. Curtiss, 
William Cornwell, 
Thomas Cook' 1 , 
John H. Cooke, 

B. S. Curtiss, 
John Colburn, 
A. Covert, 

E. W. Cooper, 
P. A. Catlin, 
James Corse, 

A. J. Cutler, 

B. Coan, 

J. R. Coats, 
Edward Collins, 
N. B. Church, 
B. Conlan, 
John Coffey, 
A. C.Cunningham, 
J. W. Clark, 
Thomas Collett, 
George C. Curtiss, 
Moses Chandler, 
W. S. Charnley, 
N. A. Cowdrey, 

D. N. Clark, 
William Crow, 
James Chaplin, 
W. H. Clark, 
Robert Craig, 
William Cosgrove 
J. W. Cook, 
Daniel C. Clapp, 






John Cleary, 
George A. Cable, 
William Cone, 
Nathan H. Carey, 
Thomas Catlin, 
Henry S. Catlin, 
Samuel J. Clarke, 
Thomas Clarkson, 
J. T. Clarke, 
Edward S. Cone, 
George Clark, 
Samuel Clark, 
Daniel Cushman, 
T. Dwight Clark, 
David Daggett, 
William Dickerman, 
Joseph Downs, 
E. B. Dibble, 
E. Dickerman, 3d, 
Charles B. Doolittle, 
J. F. Dobson, 
H. S. Dawson, 
Charles Dougal 
Alonzo Davis 
L. A. Daggett, 
M. B. Dana, 
Smith Dayton, 
Sylvester Dewey, 
J." J. Doyle, 
Zelotes Day, 
Eli Denslow, 
George Davis, 
G. A. Davis, 
Samuel Dixon, 
Edwin Dennerly, 
Lucius K. Dow, 
Charles Dixon, 
William C. Dei 
Calvin Duwnes, 
I >av, 
M. II. Doolittle, 
Francis Donnelly, 
James Donnaghe, 
Thomas W. Ensign, 
Thomas Ensign, 
Eng'i ter, 

Howard B. Ensign, 

E. W. Ensign, 
Charles H. Earl, 
Matthew G. Elliott, 

F. Eav, 

George D. English. 
Charles L. English, 
James Eaton, 
Eleazer K. Foster, 
S. L. Ferris, 
Lucius R. Finch, 
J. W. Frisbie, 
J. W. Frisbie, Jr. 
Richard H. Fowler 
C. A. Ford, 



G. Crary, 

James Crowley, 
C. Crowley, 
.lames Crayner, 

aes O. Conger, 
Jedediafa Chapman, 
Thomas Clarke, 
Henry A. Cook. 
John H. Coley, 
Daniel Clark, 
C. D. Curhan, 
James B. Clark, 
P. H. Cone, 
Hezekiah S. Cone, 
S. D. Davis, 
J. Durn, 
J. Dnunmond, 
W. D. Dutton, 
Gr. C. Dickerman, 
Ransford Davis, 
Clark S. Dunni. 

F. D. 

G. T. Durantt, 

I >avis, 
i 
T. Camp Downes, 
John Douglas, 
Charles S. A. Davis. 
J. Dooling, 

i Jr. 

E. R. Dickson, 
[ra Di Iceman, 
Orlando Dudley, 
Charles Davids, 

Dunning, 
Chester Dickerman, 
David L. Dagge 
James Deli 
William E. Dudley, 
Chari- i >, k rman, 
George W. Da\ 

B. Davis. 
William Erwin, 
William H. Elliott, Jr. 
John English, 

Edward Ely, 
Amos ! Mis, 
T.B.Evarts, 
W. M. Este, 
Norman L. Evarts, 
H. II. Edwards, 
Lewis Ellis , 
E. Fowler, 
John Field, 
C. Faimagan, 
Asa F ench, 
J. H. Fairchild, 
William R. Ferree, 
C. H. Finch, 



Canfield & Spefl 

Daniel Crowley, 
William Chipman, 
Michael Connell, 
John Conner, 
George A. Chapman, 
L. Chamberlain, 
D. Connell, 

C. Clark, 
A. L. Chamberlain, 

'it Crager, 
Gilbert F. Ca 
A. A. Colton, 

J. M. Deffendale, 
Samuel Du dap, 
W. Deghammer, 
T. P. Dickerman, 
S. A. Dunning, 
Milo Downes, 
Henry A. Duntze, 
Julius Doolittle, 

i Dickerman, 
Alfred Daggett. 
Dellinger Davis, 
J. B. Douglass, 
R. B. D 
W. B. Davis, 
Li vi Dibble, 
W. J. Derby, 
Horace Dibble, 
John D 

William Dickinson, 
Andrew DeMarlin, 
John E. Dei 
William Douglass, 
Edward Downes, 
Samuel Demond, 
Abram M. Darrow, 
Pat Dn 

Philos (t. Dorman, 
W. V. Dooi, 
C. H. Douglass, 
William H. Elliott, 

. ;. English, 
William H. Ellis, 
R. M. Everitt, 
James M. Evarts 
William Ellis, 
Peter E 
C. A. Ensign, 
* . A. Ensign 

Richard Everitt, 

Joel B. Foote, 
Henry Farnham, 
P. Fannagan. 
C. W. Fields; 
John C. Furber, 
iH.H. Foote, 
James Ford, 



S. C. Ford, 
L. R. Ford, 

Weston Ferris, 

John N. Francis, 

Thomas Flood, 

Nathan Fenn, 

William Faulkner, 

P. O. Forbes, 

Robert Fenton, 

E. H. Frisbie, 

Moses B. Frost, 

S. N. Foster, 

M. L. Frisbie, 

Nathan S. Fowler, 

Luke Fagan, 

Timothy Fowler, 

Morgan Fowler, 

D. R. Franklin, 

J. S. Farren, 

Stephen Gilbert, 

Jesse Gilbert, 

I. W. Gill, 

Frederick P. Gcrham, 

Lucius Gilbert, 

INewton Green, 

I. Gilbert & Sons, 

William Gilbert, 

k. M. Gilbert, 

Henry Grunert, 

James L. Gould, 

J. A. Gallup, 

James Gallagher, 

W. W. Guthill, 

H. A. Gray, 

F.| Gay lord, 

Jeremiah Goodenough, 

Hezekiah Gorharn, 

A. Gerrish, 

M. Giiheny, 

Levi Gilbert, 

Thomas Gilbert, 

Sackett Gilbert, 

Eleazer Gorham, 
George P. Gates, 
S. C. Gorham, 
William Grant, 
Alfred Goodsell, 
Henry Gwinnell, 
E. M. Hanover, 
Isaac Heard, 
E. B. M. Hughes, 
G. C. Hawley, 
Edward Hosmer, 
George Hosmer, 
Charles Humphrev, 
V/. W. Hubbell, 
W. L. Hubbell, 
Bartholomew Healey, 
William Hulse, 
George W. Hyde, 
B. M. Hubbard, 



F. C. Ford, 
Charles Flisler, 
J. B. Foot, 
Philip Flood, 
L. D. Fitch, 
J. Walker Fearn. 
E. L. Fairchild. 
S. D. Fairchild, 
|A. Fetherby, 
Thomas Farley, 
IR.L. Fields, 
Enos Foot, 
James Farliman, 
James Featherstone, 
J. Frisbie, 
William Farren, 
John Ferren, 
Jira B. Foote, 

John S. Gr; 
A. N. Gould, 
|T. W. Gillett, 
IS. & J. Gilbert, 
r.S. Grilling, 
James W. Glynn, 
Eli D. Gilbert, 
! William Grant, 
|S. G. Green, 
Edward Gilbert, 
J. P. Griswold, 
E. R. Green, 
E. Gilbert, Jr. 
Patrick Gordon, 
W. O. Glover, 
I. Goodrich, 
George Gorham, 
(Chester Goodyear, 
D. H. Granger, 
G. W. Goodse.d, 

Gilbert, 
IC. Graham, 
IS. Gilbert & Co. 
Lcverett Griswold, 
John Galpin, 
James Goodrich, 
'Thomas Gordon, 
IJ. B. Goodsell, 
H. Gwinnell, Jr. 
iThomas Hayes, 
Jes^e Higging, 
Edwin C. Hewitt, 
John B. Hanover, 
William T. Hanson, 
|E. L. Hubbell, 
John C. Holer, 
Hervey T. Hart, 
R. F. Hitchcock, 
IGeorge E. Hubbell. 
-Benjamin L. Hall, 
E. E. Hall, 
W. Hunt, 



William Faverweather, 
G. Ferris, 
J. H. Farnsworth, 
Patrick Flood, 
W. Fuller, 
Asa French, 
Jabez Fitch, 
J. T. Fairchild, 
William Farrell, 
Robert Finley, 
James Fordham, 
William Fairchild, 
Charles Farrill, 
Anson G. Francis. 
George W. Ford, 
Morgan G. Fowler, 
Merrit Fenn, 
Charles Finch, 

G. Giurl, 
1. Geparciu, 
Samuel B. Gorham, 
William P. Gardner, 
H. D. Gilbert, 
Patrick" Garvey, 
Levi Gilbert, George-st. 
E. Goodrich, 
Georsje Graham, 

C. R. Goodyear, 
George W. Gordon, 

D. B. Greene, 
L. G. Gelson, 
Seth Gillett, 
George Goodsell, 
J. Gill, i 

Timothy Gorham, 
Thomas Grant, 
James Glaney, 

A. S. Grant," 
Lewis Gunn, 
William B. Goodale, 
S. M. Gorhi 
Josiah Gibbs, 
Daniel S. Glenney, 
Joshua 11. Gore, 
John Gray, 
Anson Grannis, 

A. Heaton, 
Russell H. Haven, 
Charles Hooker, 
Albert R. Harrison, 
S. L. Hakwins, 
John C. Hay den. 
Simeon Hubbell, 
Simeon L. Hubbell, 
Charles Hull, 
S. W. Han, 
John M. Hendrick, 
Edward Hern, 
Gerard Hallock, 



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Edwin Horton, 
Charles Hattersley, 
Jeremiah Haley, 
Henry Holden, 
Alonzo Hinman, 
Enos S. Hurlburt, 
A. E. Hotchkiss, 
Chase Hil], 
Alexander Houston, 
Russell Hubbard, 
John Harris, 
Joel Hinman, 
Thomas Healy, 
William W. Holly, 
Russell Hotchkiss, 
George Hoadlev, 
H. S. Hoadley," 
C. P. Hubbell, 
L. W. Hall, 
C. Ha user, 
H. L. Hotchkiss, 
John C. Hollister, 
N. F. Hall, 
F. C. Hall, 
Elam Hull, 
Isaac Hopkins, 

E. C. Hargill, 
Hotchkiss & Johnson, 
L. R. Hotchkiss, 
Patrick Haley, 

C. A. Hotchkiss, 
C. R. Harris, 
George S. Hubbard. 
Thomas Horslall, 
John W. Harris, 

F. Henchit, 

G. R. H. Hughes, 
William G. Hudson, 
R. W. Hill, 
Henry Hooker, 

J. T. Havens, 
L.F.Holt, ' 
Thomas Hall, 
R. H. Hall, 
Alfred Heyliger, 
J. M. Hendricks, 
James B. Hotchkiss, 
Ralph I. Ingersoll, 
C. A. Ingersoll, 
C. M. Ingersoll, 
E. Ingraham, 
Hoadley B. Ives, 
C. R. Ingersoll, 
Charles Ives, 
L. B. Judson, 
George S. Johnson, 
Erwin Johnson, 
Edwin Jacobs, 
William Jepson, 
S. N. Johnson, 
P. A. Jeu^ett, 



Edward E. Huggins, 
Henry Huggins, 
Adrian C. Heitmann, 
L. G. Hemmingway, 
William Hanson, 
William Henderson, 
Alfred W. Husted, 
George M. Hotchkiss, 
Seth C. Horton, 
John Hood, 
George F. Hayward, 
Alfred Howarth, 
James Hurley, 
James L. Hall, 
iJ. K. Holean, 
William Hull, 
E. Hull, Jr. 
Charles Hyde, 
E. A. Hurd, 
Henry Hale, 
S. B. Hanover, 
E. S. Hinman, 
J. H. Hayes, 
E. C. Hull, 
T. N. Hotchkiss, 
M. Higby, 
S. A. Hotchkiss, 
R. Holbrook, 
P. C. Hinman, 
A. J. Hawkins, 
Stephen Hotchkiss, 
Ezra Hotchkiss, 
C. B. Hanson, 
Asa Hoyt 
S. G. Hayes, 
J. B. Hawley, 
R.J. Haldeman, 
Charles H. Hoyt, 
W. Humaston, 
G. L. Hubbell, 
Hooker & Osborn, 
Adner Hotchkiss, 
J. H. Hogan, 

C. H. Hallowell, 
P. B. Hurdon, 
John F. Hall, 

J. W. Hotchkiss, 
Morris Isbel, 
George M. Isbel, 
Willis Ives, 
Henry Ives, 
W. H. Ives, 
N. B. Ives, 
Stephen V. Ingham. 
William Johnson, 
William Jackson, 

D. S. Jones, 
J. T. Judson, 
George W. Jones, 
D. T. Johnson, 
William B. Johnson. 



George W. Hicks, 
John B. Hotchkiss, 
J. A. Humphrey, 
John G. Harvey, 
Augustus Hale, s , 
Samuel Hemmingway, 
Nelson Hotchkiss, 
Thomas C. Hall, 
James T. Hemmingway. 
H. Hickox, 
Isaac D. Hawley, 
Lucius Hotchkiss, 
George Howard, 
Edward Harland, 
George Hopkins, 
L. C. Hayward, 
William 'M.Hall, Jr. 
J. S. Hotchkiss, 
Henry Howe, 
W. B. Hays, 
Giles B. Hoadley, 
George Hinman, 
N. C. Hall, 
E. M. Hotchkiss, 
William Hogan, 
G. C. Hotchkiss, 
J. G. Hotchkiss, 
Orrin Hull, 
William Hutchinson, 
W. M. Hulduse, 
R. R. Hitchcock, 
H. Hopper, 
T. C. Hollis. 
John Healey, 
R. Hart, 
Albert Hebard, 
Oliver Hotchkiss, 
N. S. Hallenbeck, 

D. H. Hotchkiss, 
Ross Hinman, 
Samuel Hill, 
Robert Hubbard, 
R. Harkness, 
George Harpin, 
Charles Hallock, 
Charles S. Hotchkiss,, 
Elizur Harrison, 
John D. Ives, 
Lyman Ives, 

F. E. Ives, 
James Ives, 

E. L. Ives, 
L. Ives, 
A. Ives, 

John K. Johnston, 
John Jackson, 
H. B. Jones, 
N. T. Johnson, 
Newel Johnson, 

G. P. Jenks, 
E. L. Johnson, 



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George W. Judd, 
J. A. Jones, 
William C. Janes, 
Charles Jelliii; 
Sherman Johnson, 
William Jennings, 
Frederick Jones, 
Isaac Judson, 
J. Johnson, 
A. B. Jacocks. 
Dennis Kimberlv, 
William R. Kin'l \v, 
J. S. Kennedy, 
John B. Kirbv, 
G. Kinll, 
W. J. Kempton, 
A. L. Kidston, 
Henry Kelsey, 
Charfes King, 
Daniel Kline, 
H. Kilbourn, 
Owen Kean, 
Justus Kimberlv, 
John P. Kingsburv, 

D. M. King, 
H. G, Lewis, 

0. B. Leavenworth, 
W. H. Lyon, 
Samuel Lockwood, 
Daniel Loomis, 
J. M. Lansing, 
Gay Lloyd,, 
George Leek, 

E. Lee, 

George Lindley, 
L. Layman, 
Charles Lindley, 
Bela Lord, 

A. Loby, 

George E. Leonard, 
"William F. Levere, 
E. M. Lockwood, 
Miles Linsley, 
William Loveland, 
Isaiah B. Law, 

P. Lowles, 

B. L. Mason, 
S. B. Morrell, 

L. P. Morehouse, 
Giles Mansfield; 
Jno. "W. Mansfield, 
N. A. Moses, 
Ira Merwin. 
George P. Marvin, 
H. S. Mygatt, 
L. Mandlebaum, 
Enos S. Monson, 
Henry A. Murray, 
George Morse, 
A.-B. Mallorv, 
H. S. Miles, 
M. Moulthrop 



Harmon Judson, 
[John J. Jones, 
JE. A. Jones, 
John Jepson, 
Amos Johnson, 
William Jones, 
I, L. Jeroliman, 
William H. Jones, 
William Jones, 
jCapt. J. Cluinn, 
G. I. Kinney, 
A. ?. Kirwau, 
I Henry Kimberly, 
A. Kauffman, 
jRussell Kneel, 
George Kennedy, 
A. R. Kilborn, 
James Kay, 
Thomas G. Kent, 
George J. Klein, 
John Keagan, 
R. Kain, 
S. W. Knevals, 
Charles B. Knevals, 
H. C. Kirtland, 
M. Lynch, 
G. W. Lyon, 
A. F. Lilly, 
jW. A. Law, 
Elisha Lester, 
H. W. Lounsbury, 
H. G. Lum, 
■George B. Lego, 
H. Loomis, 
George Love, 
\N. H. Lancaster, 

F. Lomly, 

C.H.Leeds, 

John Lyon, 

William Law, 

Thomas M. Lord, 
lOliver Lyman, 
jEbenezer Lane, 
'Philo Lewis, 

IP. Lamey, 
•Clark Lum, 
Norman Moses, 
E. D. Moore, 
'C. M. Maguire, 
W. H. Myers, 
on Martin. 
; William M'Cov, 

. Merrick," 
:.John B. Magie, 
Patrick M'Cleaveland, 

[ aher, 
William Marriner, 
JAsa Mills, 
,G. I. Merriman, 
|C. H. Munson, 
Philander Miller, 

G. B. Miller, 



John Jackson, 
IB. H. Johnson, 
'Edward I. Jones, 
John L. Johnson, 
[William M. Johnson, 
S. B. Jerome, 
George I. Judson, 
Charles S. Jones, 
William H. Johnson, 

D. Kearney, 
F. Kittera, 

B. S. Kellam, 
R. B. Knight, 
A. W. Knight, 
David Kempton, 

A. Kilborn, 
Bradley Keeler, 
M. P. King, 

P. Kerrigan, 
Barney Keagan, 
Peter E. Kilbourn, 
Jonathan Knight, 
Joseph Kensev, 

C. P. Kirtland, 
P. R. Law, 
George Laughlin, 

B. C. Lake, 
William Lloyd, 
John E. Leland, 
Virgil Leek, 
Joseph Leavitt, 
William Love, 
Chester Lyman, 
J. L. Lvon, 

J. C. D" Lee, 
Lockwood Lane, 
B. B. Lockwood, 
David J. Lines, 
Samuel Lawson, 
Thomas Larry, 
Henry Lampson, 
William Linsley, 
John E. Lewis, 
H. S. Lanfair, 
William Lewis, Jr., 
P. Maguire, 
W. W. Merwin, 

E. A. Mitchell, 
J. A. Milligan, 
H. W. Moses, 
H. McCormiek, 
W. C. Mayo, 
Francis Mullen, 

F. A. Mooney, 
John Mulligan, 
Daniel Merwin, Jr., 
E. E. Marsh, 
Norris B. Mix, 

L. Moulthrop, 
Alfred P. Munson, 
Dennis Mansfield, 



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H. E. Matthews, 

Jonathan Morse, 
Casper Meyer, 
William Mansfield, 
Patrick Murphy, 
N. W. Moses, 
John M'Lagon, 
Orrin Miller 
James Mix, 
George S. Mygatt, 
Charles Mix,' 
H. Mandevillc, 
Charles Morris, 
Allen Mix, 
John Markland, 
John H. Munson, 
E. L. Munson, 
H. J. Morton, 
Francis Magon, 
Burton Mallory, 
Peter Merter, 
James McGrath, 
E. McCormick, 
Anson Munson, 
J. McClay, 
W. W. Miller, 
Nelson Newton, 
Ebenezer Northrop, 
Henry Norton, 
J. Nicholson, 
G. W. Nettleton, 
L. C. Newton, 
Henry North, 
Samuel Noyes, 
D. L. Newton, 
Minott A. Osborn, 
R. H. Osborn, 
Ebhu Osborn, 
H. N. Oviatt, 
Henry Peck, 
James Punderford, 
S. D. Pardee, 
I. N. Prior, 
J. R. Parker, 
Anon B. Peck, 
D. W. Peck, 
William M. Phillips, 
B. M. Prcscctt, 

D. S. Prindle, 
Lester Pail, 
Abijah Porter, 
Elias Potter, 

E. A. Pratt, 
Thomas Parkinson, 
George Phelps, 

H. E. Phelps, 
John Pierson, 
George Perry, 
Asahel Pierpont, 
Nathan B Piatt, 
Thomas Patterson, 



J. McCormick, Jr., 

Isaac Mix, 

II. D. Merritt, 
John McGoveran, 
Thomas Martin, 
Hugh McLawley, 
James McDonnell, 
P. More, 
William Mills, 
W. MclTen, 
P. McCarty, 
' MfcBranty; 
T. McClay, 
El. Munson, 
John Mire. 
E. McGildowncy, 
S. D. Miller, 
Daniel Merrill, 
Andrew Martin, 
B. F. Mansfield, 
N C. Mix, 
E. McGowen, 
Patrick Murphy, 
John Murdoch, 
B. C. Marsh, 
A. L Mason, 
II. Mansfield, 
Merril Newhall, 
Roger Newman, 
Rufus Neur, 
John Niven, 
A W. North, 
A. S. Noble, 
George Northrop, 
Ami rcw Newman, 
Nathaniel Olmsted, 
M. Olms 

Peter 0"Connell, 
P. O'Gravan, 
Thomas C. Pitkin, 
William F. Parker, 
E. A. Park, 
P. W. Post, 
W. F. Pettit, 
Seaburv Peck, 
J. D. Payne, 
J. A. Pmkerman, 
William Pierson, 
Henry Phelps, 
Robert B. Peet, 
George Pinkham, 
Edward Peck, 
Fenn Philleo, 
E. C. Pratt, 
Henry Parmelee, 
Robert Peterson, 
John Parker, 
J. C. Parker, 
Frederick Piatt, 
J. E. Parmelee, 
Timothy Potter, Jr., 



John McGuire, 

1 )\v in Morris, 
Joseph 0. Miller, 
Joseph Merchant, 
John A. Myers, 
I.. Mansfield, 
M. McLan^hlin, 
Elias T. Main, 
J. M. Mann, 
T. Merwin, 
Philip G. Martin, 
A. S. Monson, 
D. P. McCarty, 
Caleb Mix, 
[J. Mansfield, 

D. C. Mitchell, 
Elihu Myers, 
Samuel Mallett, 
James D. Munson, 
Patrick McEwen, 
James Mooney, 

J. McKee, 
James Maples, 
JohnMcl in, 
Jared Mallory, 
R. T. Merwin, 
C. Mix, Jr. 
John Noagle, 
John Nun hi i. 
Moses Nuibaum, 
George S. Newhall, 

E. N. ttleton, 
IL^Northrop, 
Knos Nichols, 
W. H. Norris, 
George Olmsted, 
J. Olcott, 
James Onthank, 
H. Orcutt, 
Noah Porter, 
W. Pruger, 
Jesse S. Pardee, 
Evelyn Peck, 
Jared L. Pitcher, 
Dwight Porter, 
Augustus Parker, 
William P. Parmell, 
Joseph H. Pardee, 
Erastus Phelps, 

S. H. Porter, 
Rufus Pcttee, 
George Prindle, 
Henry L. Pierpont, 
A. G. Pratt, 
George Palfrey, 
William Pendleton, 
P. W. Powell, 
Cornelius Piatt, 
George Piatt, 
P. W. Payne, 
James Powell, 



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D. Pritchard, 

Isaac Plumb, 
John Peckham, 
James C. Phelps, 
William L. Page, 
John Perou, 
W. H. Pond, 
Miles Punderson, 
Lewis Pierpont, 
James Quinn, 
William A. Reynolds, 
Patrick Rogers, 
Edmund Reilly, 
J. E. Redfield, 
H. S. Rogers, 
Jackson Roberts, 
William Ramsdell, 
Nehemiah Robbins, 
H. M. Remington, 
Henry Razee, 
N. S. Richardson, 
Stephen Ritter, 

E. C. Reed, 
W. B. Ross, 

J. T. Robertson, 
S. Richards, 
Chas. P. Riggs, 
John Richardson, 
Harvey N. Rowe, 
Stephen Rowe, 
Edwin Robinson, 
Henry M. Rowe, 
Stephen Rowe, 2d, 
Nathan Smith, 
Owen Sweney, 
Oliver Smith, 
Sanford & Allen, 
S. Taylor Scott, 
R. N. Strickland, 
T. J. Stafford, 
E. G. Storer, 
L. E. Shelley, 
O. Squirrel!, 
B. W. Stone, 
S. M. Stone, 
L. S. Smith, 
Wm. Shortman, 
M. N. Sperry, 
S. D. Sperry, 
Wm. Scoville, 
Enos Sperry, 
Rawson Smith, 
Sylvester Smith, 
Horace Sperry. 
Joseph Sutherland, 
Henry Scovill, 
Henry Smith, 
Levi Sherman, 
Hiram Stevens, 
Scranton &. Parshley, 
W. T. Scranton, 
Joseph Short, 



John Parshlev, 
N. P. Powers, 
H. S. Potter, 

D. Augustus Peck, 
Richard Piatt, 
Jesse Peck, 
David J. Peck, 
Lyman Parker, 

Joseph W. Quill, 
Reuben Rice, 
John Riley, 
James Ray, 
S. D. Roberts, 
I. B. Rich, 

E. H. Riley, 

F. A. Riggs, 
Philip Ryan, 
J. S. Rathburn, 
Wm. Risley, 
Josiah Reab,' 
E. Rockwell, 
Lyman Rico, 

E. Reilly, 

John B. Robertson, 
John J. Ryan, 
Charles Roberts, 
J. O. Riggs, 
Levi Rowe, Jr., 
Daniel Rowe, 
John Rowe, 
George B. Rowe, 
Moses Seward, 
D. B. Sanger, 
I. Sanford, 
George W. Swift, 
W. Smith, 
Isaac Stevens, 
Albert Spencer, 
EI. S. Shutliff, 
A. A. Smith, 
W. H. Simpson, 
George W. Sperry, 
H. H. Smith, 

F. Strauss, 
Wm. Skinner, 
D. H. Scovill, 
M. G. Smith, 
S. G. Stoddatd, 
S. A. Smith, 
Charles H. Stevens, 
W. H. Sheleen, 
Jas. Stevenson, 
Robert Sizer, 

Geo. A. Smith, 
Thos. Sault, 
Burton Sperry, 
P. Sheridan, 
David Scranton, 
Harry Scranton, 
H. Schellenberger, 
C. Sweetman, 



Thomas Phillips, 
Henry Pond, 
Charles Peterson, 
Augustus Page, 
Laban Pardee, 
G. H. Phelps, 
Daniel Parmelee, 
Lewis Parmelee, 

Elijah H. Quimby, 
Samuel Rowland, 
Henry Ruckhold, 
Bernard Reynolds, 
James C. Rice, 
Samuel Root, 
S. Robinson, 
Henry Richardson, 

E. W. Richards, 
J. E. Rathbun, 
W. L. Rowland, 
Shubal Royce, 
M. Rearden, 
Peter Rice, 

C. Ruckoldt, 
Bernard Riley, 
Daniel L. Riggs, 
Henry Robinson, 
Ruel Rowe, 
Willet Rowe, 
Hiram Rowe, 
Edwin Russell, 

Hugh Shields, 
Henry Simson, 
Charles Swartz, 
C. Sullivan, 

F. Schneider, 

F. S. Smith, 

G. Q. Sill, 

H. F. Stedman, 
George Shumway, 
S. D. Smith, 
Chas. Smith, 
Robert Sutton, 
S. M. Smith, 
M. Shumway, 
M. Shumway, Jr. 
Wm. Seward, 
A. C. Sperry, 
John Seward, 
Sidney Sperry, 
W. E. Sanford, 
Joseph Sutz, 
A. H. Sherman, 
Geo. W. Stebbins, 
John Shanley, 
William Stanley, 
A. Scott, 
F. E. Stevens, 
E. Stannard, 
Jno. N. Sanford, 
E. Shields, 



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N. Sweetman. 
Lyman M. Smith, 

E. Stevens, 
Frederick Stone, 
T. M. Smith, 
Jonathan Stoddard, 
Richard Stone, 

S. E. Sanford, 
Sherman Smith, 
W. Stickaej . 
Henry Stow, 
Peter Schlot 
A\ illiani Stoddard, 

8 
A. Si 

i Sporty, 
Henry F. Smith, 
Samuel Smith, 
G.P. Sanford, 
Isaac Seeley, 
John Smith. 

F. Stocking, 

Smith, 
S. F. Stedman, 
T. M. - 
Lucian M. Studdard, 

. v, 
J W. Smith, 

Thompson, 
ris Tyler, 

b Taylor, 
C, I '. Thomas, 

Thomas, 
Philo Terrell, 
W. I. Turrell, 
Vv'illet Thompson, 
I >. Trowbi 
l>. A. The 
George W. Taylor, 
John Tillou, 
E. S. Tuck 
Isaac Tuttle, 
Wesley Tuttle, 
Jos. Trowbrii 
Alonzo Thompson, 
S. (-. Thompson, 
C.S. Todd, 
W. F. Tolles, 
N. W. Taylor, Jr., 
A. A. Thompson, 
Charles P. Thomas, 
Elizur H. Thatcher, 
Julius Tyler, 
Theron Towner, 
Geo. P. Thomas, 
George Umberfield, 
Levi Vanhoeseu, 
O. Voin 

John Wood raff, 
R. A. White, 
Wm. G. Webster, 



IH. D. Smith, 

M. Shields, 

G. II. Sherman, 

a Smith, 
jGeorge P. Stillmau, 

E. 11 Smith, 
|F. S. Smith. 

Samuel Short, 

John Scarritt, 
iGeo. Sweet I. 

Stephen Stow, 

Burton Sperry, 

Wm. S 
Thomi 

Fowler Sperry. 
Charles B. Shepherd, 
! [iram H. Si 

:ers, 

Amos E. Strong, 
Henry H. S 

!>. Stow, 
Z. C. Stoddard, 
Wm. L. Stark, 
H. B. Smith, 

Lyman Treadway, 
A. J. Thorn . 
Sherman Tyler, 
Francis Taylor, 

■ Uttle, 
A. N. 'Futile, 
Samuel Tolles, 
J. E. Thompson, 
Selh Tuthill, 
A. II. 1 

Treadway, 
.1. T. Thompson, 
Rilev Tliomas, 
C. Thomas, 

1 Thomas, 
Amos Thorn 
Henry Thompson, 
Orrin'R. Treat, 
F. E. Townsend, 
Wm. J. Thompson, 
Atwater Treat, 
Spencer Turner, 
'David Tuttle, 
Francois Turner, 
H. S. Tomlinson, 
Smith G. Tuttle, 
C. S. Thompson. 
Loren Fmberfield, 
Louis Vetter, 
James M. Veader, 
A. Wilcox, 
T. Wausen, 
T. Watson, 



C. Sweetman, Jr.. 
i,. Shepherd, 
- iiiderson, 
M. R. Shepherd, 
Henry Saxlon, 

Smith, 
M. Schenehon, 
Ilcrvey Sanford, 
jjohneon Sanford, 
Lewis T. Smith, 
i .''li Sears, 
mith, 
B. Stone, 
Robert II. Starr, 

• rry, 

Iter, 

i Stevens, 

es Smith, 

ma, 

ph E. Sheffield, 

Alexis Sperry, 

1 I. Sawyer, 

Phillin 

Bevil P. Smith, 

E. T 

II. L. Scranton, 

• Tuttle, 
II. Trowbridge's Sons, 
M. Tu 
.Michael Tavlor, 

[.Thomas, 
Charles Tuttle, 

F. Tuttle, 

E. Tuttle, 
J. Tucker, 
•nple, 

ard W. Treat, 
Edward Thomas, 
Tree, 
I . Tuttle, 
E.B. i 

Chas.A. Tuttle, 
Evan Thomas, 
Frederick Thomas, 
Daniel Trowbridge, 
John Townsend, 
Wm. Thomas, 
Lewis A. Thomas, 
Cyrus E. Thorp, 

Thomas, 
(i. I). Tomlinson, 
John Thompson, 
Henry Townsend, 

I v Upson, 
Wm. Vann. 
Wm. E. Vibbert, 
J. M. Ward, 
[Isaac Watts, 
James Woods, 



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Clark Wooster, 
Lewis Warner, 
Samuel Wire, 
A. C. Wilcox, 
J. H. Wells, 
D. B. Wheeler, 
S. R. Warner, 
P. F. Wilbur, 
Chas. S. Weller, 

D. E. Wagner, 

E. Wharton, 
John White, 

A. Willoughby, 
Chas. W T ebster, 
Eneas Warner, 
George Wheaton, 

B. A. Wooster, 
Joseph White, 
Henry Woodruff, 
W. R. Webb, 

T:. Watkins, 

I Wallace, 
G. A. Woodworlh, 
(i. F. Warner, 
Bt R. Wells, 
Chas. B. Warring, 
John J. Wright, 
Francis Weltou, 
Jam"K M. Wiswell, 
Roswcll Waters, 
Alfred Walker, 
James M. Woodward, 
T. S. Wells, 
Win. Warner, 
William M. White. 



C. A. Wooster. 
H. II. Wooding. 
Stephen White. 
Wighton, 
H. M. Wells, 
C. R. W he don, 
Hiram Woodruff, 
Samuel Weight, 
H. L. Warner, 

B. H. Wheeler, 

C. Wharton, 
Benjamin Warner, 
M. E. Wakelee, 
George Weir, 

V F.Wood, 

ilcox, 
G. A. Wissbecker, 
! David Wilcoxson, 
W. A Willoughby, 
J. C Wooding, 

C. M. Willi 
Eben Williams, 
John Woodruff, 2d, 
Xoves Wilmot, 

J. B. Wheat, 
Israel R. Ward, 
John Welch, 
Thomas Way, 
'John E. Wylie, 
John Warner, 
Alvan Wilcox, 
James C. Woodward, 

D. B. Watrous, 
Ij. B. Wilcox, 



Horace Warner. 
Charles Warner, 
B. Webster, 
L. Waterman, 
Henry Warren, 
Leonard Winship, 
Chester Warner. 
|R. T. Weeks, 
H. H. Western, 
J. Wharton. 
Owen Ward, 
W. H. Way, 2d, 
H. C. Wakelee, 
James M. Weaver, 
Henry D. Wells, 
H. A. Wilcox, 
John Wilson, 
A.W. Wield, 
J. F. Warner, 
Charles Warwick, 
Brvcc Wilson, 
J. F. Wilcox, 
Isaac Woodford, 
James Williamson, 
James M. Welch, 
George A. Wright, 
Thomas Walsh, 
John Welsh, 
Wm. Way, 
Jacob Whiting, 
W. W. Wait, 

I Lyman Woodward, 
\. A. Wilcox, 
C. A. Warren, 



PROCEEDINGS 



AT 



BREWSTER'S HALL 



On the evening of the 24th inst., a large audience was con- 
vened in Brewster's Hall, and at the appointed hour, James 
Brewster, Esq. called the meeting to order. C. Atwater, 
Jr., Esq., announced on behalf of the Committee of Arrange- 
ments, the following officers of the meeting : 

President. 
Hon. DENNIS KIMBERLY. 

I ice Presidents. 

1. Chas. A. Incersoll, 16. William H. Elliott, 

2. Natii'l. W. Tayl . 17. Wm. S. Charnlev, 
:•». Joel Hi 18. Henry Trowbridge, 

4. Eleazar K. Foster, 19. Wm. A. Reynolds, 

5. William H. Ellis, 20. Russell Hotchi 

6. James Brewster, 21. Frederick Croswell, 

7. Alfred Blackman, 22. Ceorge Hoadl 

8. Joseph E. Sheffield, 23. Guy C. Hotchkiss, 

9. Sidney Babcock. 24. Stephen D. Pardee, 

10. Nathan Smith, 25. Henry Hooker, 

11. Wm. Welles Holly, 26. Roswell J. Brown, 

12. Stephen Gilbert, 27. Ezra C. Reed, 

13. Minott A. Osborn, 28. James Punderford, 

14. Willis Bristoll, 29. Henry Peck, 

15. James E. English, 30. James M. Veader, 

31. William M. White. 

Secretaries,. 

1. John Galpin, 4. Charles W. Allen, 

2. H. J. Morton, 5. Burton Mallory, 

3. Samuel S. Bassett, 6. Lewis B. Judson. 



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Gen. Kimbeklv, upon taking the chair, was loudly cheered, 
and addressed the meeting as follows : 

Fellow Citizens : — It will be sufficient, perhaps, in refer- 
ence to the objects of this meeting, that I refer to the 
call which has been made, which probably you have all seen 
and which indeed most of you must have signed, as it pur-^ 
ports, I understand, to be signed by about seven-eighths of 
the legally qualified electors of this city, embracing all class- 
es, sects, and professions ; not all parties, but the two great 
political parties. 

It may, however, not be amiss, for the purpose of bringing 
more distinctly before you the object for which we are as- 
sembled, briefly to recur to the immediate origin of the Ques- 
tion upon which you propose to express your opinions. 

You will all distinctly remember the events which were 
transpiring for a considerable time anterior to the last session 
of Congress, and which necessarily brought up for the consid- 
eration and action of that body, various subjects affecting or 
supposed to affect the different local interests and feelings of 
the different sections of the country ; and all more or less 
directly involving the delicate and distracting question of sla- 
very. Previous to the session the people had become greatly 
excited, and the country, from its center to its extremes, con- 
vulsed with the subject ; the session commenced in a storm, 
and so entirely did these matters engross the feelings and con- 
trol the action of members, that days and weeks of the ses- 
sion passed away in fruitless eilbrts to organize the House ; 
the ordinary business of legislation was suspended ; the honest 
creditors of the Government were denied a hearing, and nearly 
the whole session of Congress, embracing a period of almost 
ten months, was spent in angry and acrimonious debate. 
All remember with what painful excitement the lookers on 
from a distance waited the result. It would detain you too 
long, indeed, it is unnecessary to go into a detailed history of 
the struggle ; suffice it to say that it resulted in the adoption 
of a series of measures called the peace or compromise 
measures, one of which is that which regards the extradition 
of fugitive slaves, and that is the one in reference to which, 
more especially, you have deemed it necessary to express your 
opinion to-night. 

Upon the adjournment of Congress it seemed for a time that 
if comparative peace and tranquility was restored. Indeed it 
was then hoped that these questions might be considered as 
settled, and be no longer suffered to agitate the country. But 
this did not suit the purpose of certain persons in either ex- 
treme ; and hence agitation soon began again, and is continued 



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to this tims ; and now there is a spirit <>f disunion and discord 
prevailing, a disregard of the laws and constitutional obliga- 
tions, which, unless met and controlled by a conservative- in- 
fluence, bode evil to the country. 

And, gentlemen, it is not to be disguised that this spirit is 
not confined to the remote sections of the country where we 
have been accustomed to expect it: but here in this highly 
favored and happy New England, there are those who avow 
their purpose not to abide by any compromise; who hold to 
a higher law than the Constitution of their country, in virtue 
of which those provisions of that sacred instrument which 
conflict with individual conscience, are abrogated. 

There are here among the order-loving, law-abiding peo- 
ple (as we have been accustomed to consider ourselves) of 
New England, those who teach and those who preach diso- 
bedience and lorcible resistance to the laws and the constitu- 
ted authorities, even to the shedding of blood ! 

Now as much as we may wish it were otherwise, these 
things are so. I suppose you do not entertain these opinions. 
I suppose there is no one here pursuant to the call, but would 
desire not to be suspected of entertaining such opinions, or 
of having any sympathy with those who do. Therefore it 
is right and proper, here to assemble and. publicly declare our 
unabated attachment and unwavering fidelity to the Union, 
and to its Constitution; and our determination to abide by 
and sustain the Constitution in all its parts. That it is our pur- 
pose now, and at all times, and under all circumstances, to in- 
culcate and enforce the duty of obedience to the laws, all 
laws regularly enacted — not excepting those of the comprom- 
ise; and no less than one of the series of compromise meas- 
ures which relates to fugitives from service, than all the 
others of the series. 

It is unnecessary now to go into the question whether the 
law to which 1 have alluded, and out of which has grown so 
much feeling, be defensible in all its details or not. We are 
to sustain it; it is our duty as patriots, and as Christians, to 
sustain it so long as it continues to be the law of the land. 

In regard to this law, however, 1 wish to Bay a word. I 
have examined it somewhat critically and carefully, and I de- 
clare I cannot find that it is justly amenable to all the abuse 
which has been so liberally bestowed upon it. I do not be- 
lieve it is. I do not doubt there is great misapprehension in 
d to its provisions. It may be honest misapprehension, 
but I do not believe it is understood, and I fear there is too 
little disposition to understand it. It may not be so. 

Now, in the first place, 1 do not doubt that it was the duty 
of Congress to pass some law on this subject more effectually 



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to secure to the South their constitutional rights. No doubt it 
is the duty of Congress, from time to time, to legislate on this 
subject, as the exigencies of the times require. This duty- 
was very early recognized, for in 1793, four years after the 
adoption of the Constitution, Congress passed a law in prin- 
ciple the same as the act in question ; and on examination 
and comparison of the two laws, I think that of 1850, will be 
fairly subject to less complaint than that of 1793. 

The law of 1793, in one or two particulars, was undoubtedly 
defective, and therefore the necessity of the revision. The 
law of 1793 devolved upon State magistrates, Justices of the 
Peace, the duty of its execution ; well, experience shewed 
that this was an unwise provision, and in 1842 the Supreme 
Court of the United States, in a case before them, intimated 
a doubt whether State magistrates could be required to act 
under the law of Congress ; I don't understand that it was 
decided that they could nut ; but the intimation of a doubt 
was quite sufficient to render that part of the law a dead let- 
ter ; indeed the whole law from that time ceased to have any 
vitality, and it became necessary to provide a substitute ; 
hence the act of 1850 provides for the appointment of Com- 
missioners, men legally qualified and competent to execute 
the law. This is a great improvement upon the old law ; so 
in another respect, the law of 1793 did indeed profess to author- 
ize the master or his agent to seize or arrest the alledged fu- 
gitive, but it left him without any legal process ; he was 
obliged to rely upon physical force alone, and this sometimes 
led to disturbance, endangering the security of the freeman ; 
confounding him, as it sometimes did, with the fugitive slave. 
But the law of 1850 has wisely provided that a warrant may 
issue in the first instance, directed to the Marshal of the Dis- 
trict, or other known officer, who is required to execute the 
warrant, peaceably, in the execution of his duties as such offi- 
cer. Is not this a great improvement upon the old law ? 
Does it not add greatly to the security of all parties? No 
doubt. But I am not going into all the details of the act ; 
I am not here for the purpose of justifying them, but I can- 
not justify the abuse heaped upon the law. 

I wish every individual who desires information on this 
subject, would take the two laws — that of 1793, under which 
we have lived a half century, and that of 1850 — and compare 
them, and I am confident that the latter will not suffer by 
comparison. 

The chair is informed that the Hon. Ralph 1. Ingersoll will 
present certain resolutions accompanied with such remarks 
as he may deem desirable. 

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The Hon. K. 1. Ingi.ksui.i. tneii arose, and WSJ greeted with 
loud and enthusiastic applause. The following resolutions 
were presented by him : 

/Itsolwd, That we cherish a cordial, habitual and immoveable attach- 
: to the Union, and the Constitution which the fathers of this Repub- 
lic framed for us; that we regard this I'nion ami its Constitution as 
beacon Lights erected by the wisest and purest of patriots, under the guid- 
ance of i J rovidence. From wreck the ark of our Liberties and 
Independence. 

Retoirt'1. That we regard tin' unity of government which constitutes 
the peop • pie, "a- the main pillar in the edi- 

fice of our real independence; the support ot our tranquility at home ; 
f „. .il.road : ol our safety; 01 out prosperity, and of the very 

liberty which \\ e so h gbly prize;" that it is the duty oi every pood citi- 
zen to ''watch for in preservation witl us snxiet) . discountenen* 

• ren a suspicion that it can in any event be 

idoned; and u the first dawning of every 

attempt t portion of <>ur country from the rest, or to safes- 

j e ..' which now link together the various parts." 

in all its part", 

ipreme law ol the land, which every citizen 
<ltl j , Mind to r< i to which the electors of Caunec- 

ncui t "true and faithful ;" that the requirements contained 

in it, that "persons held t >i in one Slate, under the laws there- 

■ red nn on claim of the party to 
whom Buch service ot labor n inding force than the 

other parts of that sa at ; and that the receut act <>t Congress ra- 

ng fugitn irsuant to this plain provision of the 

ild he truly and faithfully sustained by every friend 
of tint g ; which it has pleased Providence to favor us 

with 

/; i we will a d sapport, all the m< ' peace 

and i ,!l nl Congress | as well as the 

knd no the territorial 

ition ol the 
hat which enforces 
the Constituti that which ad- 

mit- i rnia into this Union, I nstitntion excluding 

the institutioo ih which those 

mo. i- i -tii "i time a hick iheii i 

ami examination occup. and the country, the danger- 

ous and threat ublic mind which preceded their en- 

actment, and the ] I unparalleled exertions of the emi- 

nent statesrru political parties who labored in season and out of 

season fi>ran amir , we leel it to be our duty to adhere to 

the resw .:, an 1 'in principle and substance a 

final settlement of the dangerous and exciting subjects' with which the 
country has I • >ed ; and we deprecate the re-opening of the ques- 

tions connected with them or their further agitation, as unwise, unpatriotic 
and fraught with imminent peril to the peace, prosperity, and union of our 
common country. 

'ved, That we know of no higher law as a rule for political action 
than the Constitution of the United States, and we have no sympathy or 
fellowship with men who instigate or encourage a forcible resistance to 



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the constituted authorities of the country; we hold such men to be mis- 
chievous members of the community, and justly deserving the severest 
penalties which the laws have provided tor their offences — and that those 
who claim to be too conscientious to yield their obedience to the laws of 
the land, should remove themselves to some other country whose institu- 
tions they prefer, and not avail themselves of the benefits of the Union 
whilsHhey repudiate its obligations. 

Resolved, That we are utterly opposed to all foreign interference with 
our political and civil institutions; and when foreign agents or emissaries 
come among us teaching or preaching treason to the Government, they 
are not entitled to the hospitalities of the country which they abuse, or 
the respect or countenance of a law abiding people. 

Resolved, That the following named citizens be appointed an UNION 
SAFETY COMMITTEE, with power to fill vacancies and add to their 
numbers ; whose duty shall be, by correspondence and otherwise, to carry 
out the objects of this meeting — which are hereby declared to be : To re- 
vive and foster among the people of the United States — the spirit in which 
(he Union teas formed and the Constitution was adopted — and to resist 
"every attempt to alienate any portion of our county from the rest, or to 
enfeeble the sacred ties which now bind together the various parts." 

Alfred BlackmaK, tkr, Jr.. 

Drama Kinberlt, v"j ,ur.n, 

Charles A. Ingersoll, . Galpin, 

Wm. H. Ellis, Hoadlet, 

James Biu '. bi . e. 
Chaki.i- 1'. HcBBELL, JoHH B. Roi 

H. 15. W i i.i II. ilooKK.r.. 

Charles \V. Allen, Lewis B 

Samii iett, He* Lev u, 

Burton Malloby, I>i ' i- 

Stephen Gilbi 

GEORCii: I». EmOI I8H, • 16, 

William Dickbbman. 

Loud plaudits accompanied and followed the reading of the 
resolutions, after which Mr. fngersoll addressed th<> audience 
as follow- 

Mr. President ind Fellow Citizens — I should have 

been well satisfied, had the vote been taken upon the resolu- 
tions, without a word of comment — but as my fellow citizens 
now assembled from (hi-- busy community, seem toexpect that 
something Bhould be Raid, 1 will detain them for a lew mo- 
ments, and I assure you the}' shall !>•• very lew, while I ex- 
press rny own views on the subjed that hag brought us here. 
I shall iay nothing but as to one of the measun - (prom- 

ise, for the public sentiment has been too generally expressed 
in favor of the others to justify any further comment on them 
on the present occasion. It is, however, the fugitive act that 
lias drawn upon the compromise the violent denunciations of 
a portion of the public press — of meetings of excited citizens, 
and I regret to add, of some pulpits, too. But after all this 



20 

. or f( i ' the calm searcher after truth 
will find that this act is founded in one <>t the Bolemn com- 
pacts of the ConstUutioni which plainly declares thai ■•per- 
i held t<> service or labor in one State under the laws 
thereof, shall bo delivered up on claim of the party to whom 
such or labor may be due." 

It has always appeared to me in view of this clause <>| the 
Constitution, that the only consistent opponents either of the 
law of 1793 i ir the return of fugitive slaves to the jurisdic- 
tion from which they c >me, or the law of the last b< Bsion oi 
( >his 'in- same in principle, though more effectu- 

al in carrving out the constitutional requirements, are tho 
who h!. M Garrison and h I denounce the Con- 

stitution itself, as " a compact with sin," ;is well as all laws 
thai le in obedience to Its . ents. But 1 am not 

of those who believe that we have grown wiser in refor- 
mer to our moral or constitutional duties, than wen 
the fatl Rej nblic Th( j carried the country 

through the war of the Revolution, the men of the north and 
:i. contending Bhoulder to shoulder, in the 
commo ' ' all i" question, or inter- 

fere with the d< titutions, which either section saw- 

tit to m The il! in who drew up the 

Dec I ara tion of 1 

untie may be said of him, more illustrii 
through th< Revolution, the 

the heart - ol his 
i ig which it had pleased 

IV | i in the t the 1 

I, nated th< era ol ention which at- 

I ork, which had 

in afield. I . harmoi • the 

tch-words ol I without them, the independence 

<>t" th« se States could nevei have been won. without them, this 

. in my hum- 

■ numbered when • to 

i as they w< I by those early patriots. 

There \ lional int oal feel- 

tion that formed 
the Constitution. I will mention two of them. The subject ol 
one vi ith the Bouth, lest it should he in- 
terfered with contrary to their w d the other hand, the 

[gating of the e tod somewhal of a 6ec- 

ial feeling in the other geographical extreme* wh< 
was universal to pla< preat interest of Now Bngland un- 

der the control of I government which could secure 

it against foreign int e or competition. 



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The Stains at the south then had the right to import slaves 
from Africa or elsewhere to any extent as might seem to them 
expedient — a right which they could have retained till this 
day, but tor the Constitution which limited it to the vear 1808. 
The committee to whom the subject had been referred, first 
reported in favor of the year 1800. The south was particu- 
larly restive under this proposed restriction, and the delegates 
from some of the southern States, intimated that 'hey never 
could come into the Union upon such a condition. A com- 
mit tee at the same time had also reported in favor of restrict- 
ing Congress from passing any navigation laws, unless by a 
two-thirds vote of the members — a condition winch New Eng- 
land fell to be fatal t<> her interests. In this state of things 
both subjects were recommitted to the immittee, and 

a compromise was the result ; they reported to permit the 
slave trade to go on till the year 1808, and to authorize ( ', -,- 
: navigation laws, without the two-thirds restric- 

tion. Both recommendations were harmoniously adopted 
by the convention — and it will he found upon the record, that 
upon the question of giving the longest time (1808) for the 
slave tradi x - rlampsh icnusetts and Connecticut, 

(the only New England States then represented) voted in the 
affirmative, with the extreme Bouth, against the votes of the 
central States and Virginia. Subsequently, when il was pro- 
posed to inserl that article in the Constitution which requires 

the surrender of fugitive -laves, out of which the nets of Con- 

on that Bubjecl have sprung, nol a voice from .New Eng- 
land vi d against it ; — it passed with entire unanimity. 
And when I mention the v Roger Sherman, 
Olivei rth, and Wm. Samuel Johnson, the men who 
then represented the honor and interest of Connecticut, I am 
sure that no nniunity will utter a rep 
upon their memories. It was not that these delegates, or 
their i tea from the other portions of New England, 

in favor of slavery in any of its tonus. Far from it; 
most, if not all of them, had taken part in the legislation of 
the Eastern States, graduallj to be rid of it in our own bor- 
ders. Bui in the convention they did not forget that they 
were forming a united government, for seperate and inde- 
< ut sovereignties, having different local interests, habits, 
and pursuits — a government limited in its operation to mat- 
ters most external, and which left the internal and domes- 
tic concerns of each State, as far as consistently could be, to 
its own legislation. And though they voted to permit the 
slave trade to such States as might choose to have it, till the 
year 1808, yet even that was better than to form no union at 
all, and thus leave it to go on forever under sovereignties dis- 



united, ami indepei ten other. So when t)i<-y eg 

that flu lould I e delivered up, it was but ■ perl of the 

apact by which the importation was limited, and probablj 
cured to population at the south, more liberties 

and greater indulgences from thoee whom they served, than 
the] would have had without it. — fur without some luoh pro- 
ter would eery naturally resort t<> a more se- 
iipline to prevent i which would 

alw j ttended by a t->t:.! loss. In this connection I may 

be permitted he i ••- that although tin- word ' v l;> 

no where aui ears in the ( I lution of the I nited State*) 
(tht i a fastidiousness about using it among the mem- 

re of the convention)— yet the C oecticut delegation had 
oo tin- appropriate 

rn S \ i ' 

• 
>urs in ti on that 

on this distui 
su ; loption "i i < ititution, it ' 

t to I and thai body in 

th,. issrd a law similar in its principles 

: t\ denounced. 
1798) that the i an} tu- 

: h\ 

. and 
tak< ■ pon 

pro* ■ of the n te either oral, or by 

atli ide 

ol the I 
efficient warrant to take 
It 
... one 

wh 

lit to find anything m the 

■ than this and it ti, 

anv foul Ol which we have lately 

ury and the writs <>i ha« 
v in all the lO this act, 

motion <*i the big 
id. Indee i, 1 m 

lubject, whetbei ol 170! 
. ip. in \c.\ E b . i. The first provis- 
ion that I find for the sun moog the ar« 

71 
1,; n; ; . Plymouth, C<>n- 

\. .11 tven. It i- ' 8th article, and reads 

• • [t is all that if anv servant run away from his 



•s.i 

master, into any other of these confederated jurisdictions, 
th.it in ^uch case upon the certificate of one magistrate in the 
jurisdiction out of which the said servant fled, or upon other 
proof, the said servant shall be delivered, either to his mas- 
ter nr any other that pursues, and brings such certificate or 
proof" 

The similarity is BO striking that f think we cannot mistake 
the origin of the different enactments. Connected with this 
same article in the New England Confederation, is another 
equally summary for the delivery of fugitives from justice, 
much as the two subjects are in the constitutional 

article, and in the act of 1708; and still more strikingly 
marking their origin. Any one who is curious y<n this sub- 
ject may find the .New England articles iii Hinin.i • II itori- 
cal Collections, pages 34 and 36 - 1 •■'. that may be found 
in the public libraries of tins citj o private librari 

Tli. II • : caJ < loUectioni of M - ■:■ tta w I alao show 
that other distant colonies, ool confederated with us. as tar 

the au- 
thorities of N I. .lid for the arrest of fugitives from 
their jurisdic which were returned to them as a matter 

of courtesy and colonial common lai I i without any ar- 
ticles requiring it When the act ot 1793 therefore came be- 
I that it met with no 

■untry. It was 
introduced m the Senate ol the U\ ited State-, and is said to 
have been penned by M I ■'. d I tished Senator 
from M I not the Journal of the 

Senate that will enable me to speak from the record. It p 
ed the body, however, by a unanimo In 'h' - House 

of R ■ . the Journal shows that it passed by the 

decisii • I to 1 the ma ority beii 

posed ••! 26 meml en from i orthem and central State-, and 
29 from States holding Blaves. The minority was composed 
5 members from the North and j from tne South, 'i 

northern and Central States bad a majority in the House. I 
find of the Connecticut delegation the names of .lames Hill- 

houae, Jeremiah Wadsworth and Amasa Learned, recorded 

' —and but on • of our i irs, Jonathan 

Stui I will be found in the old 

edition of United States laws, bearing upon [\ \ of 

Jonathan Trumbull, who was then the Speaker of the House, 
and a member from Conne- i honored name in our 

history — and bearing also the approving name of one more 
honored — <■ Washington. I find also among the list 

of those voting torn, Blbridge Gerry, Fisher Ames, and Theo- 
dore Sedgwick, men who it is to be presumed understood their 



I 

duties a1 le <■!! as those Who make greater pretensions 

now. I find also there, the name of Elias Boudinot, the father 
and firsl President of the American Bible Society, a stainless 
name ii »n oi chi tesmen who did honor to 

the age in which they lived. This law, which they passed, 
has been as free from abuse in pi anj other that could 

be p issed on the sub eel When the Constitution was adopt- 
ed, and when this act was passed in 1798, slaver] was not con- 
fined to the South, it ws Northern ••"in.' 

but still among us. It existed in Connecticut 
— and although til. : i !iv iii tins meeting older than my- 

•i Haven, d on an 

Ii bt Mm y of our substantia] 
fai : ned t un ind remnants of I 

may now be found i of our tow ns hot ei 

around the the families t.» which their fath< 

belo hearth' I as it \\ 

w • srhich I have alluded, 

from this State i Si ite, I 

havi -lit...; ■ the master willingly availed him- 

institutional i the re- 

W .'i •• then have been the 

■ t. had | been found I • 

to tell t cul their ma! tor's throats — 

the were bi ou -hi t<> trial — 

•■ d them if th 
Bhou .' ' . thai our 

sturdy s brooked such 

. than ou . qow do ' [mmedi- 

'idly demands i in certain quar- 

1 ted i wn in 

I say 

I 
Id h" I 
an thro pj ■ ] jy 

^s that I Irenof slavi fl •, time, 

upon the • and 

by this very gradua the institution wa 

tibly uri- ; ft .:• way through the aiffi- 

culty in our ow .-. ■ >rk which, I would 

•. 
em.- ted to oome amo od 

> they have i the modern d 



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immediate emancipation. If our fathers with so few slaves 
among them, found the subject so delicate to be dealt with, 
should we not draw from it a lesson of the most careful for- 
and a t lithiul performance of our constitutional 
duties towards those States which have now hundreds and thou- 
sands of this population to be dealt with, where we had but one? 

T • many petitions got up often by artful managers, and 
pressed upon < . for the abolition of slavery in the 

Distrid •■ Columbia, lor the last few years, in the hope of 
affecting slavery in the States adjoining indirectly, have no 
doubt done much to bring the present crisis Upon the country* 
Here, too* we have wisdom to learn from the past* for the 
subject "! slavery in the District of Columbia, is one which 
any administration may be embarrassed with at all tunes, if 
the opposition is unscrupulous enough t" ring the changes in- 

mntly upon it. I fore< 

as early • 1805, not in a proposition lor immediate abolition 
— the tnthropists — but merely that 

tin- children burn of slave parents, belonging to citizens of 
the I '.strict of I 'olumbia. shoul 1 become fire on their arrival 

at a certain age The administration was then in southern 
bands — it was during the presidency of Mr. n, who, 

as we all know, had in the HoUSS of R retW ' ' '■ - a very 
•it' d and skillful Opposition. The leader of that opp 
I was from tin- St.it>- of ConnOCtioUt I allude, of c lUISe, 

to the late Roger I . a man of commanding intel 

and spotless honor. However tempting the m might 

have been to a man ol less honorable bearing, to turn the 
anti-slavery feeling against the administration. V et he bore 
himself far above any sneh paltry pol i when the 

question was taken, l.e with those oi his colleagues from Con- 
necticut, who were present on the occasion, v. .ted to a mm 
promptly against the proposition. The vote .»t our delega- 
tonsured by the freemen of Connecticut, and 
the whole inbjecl put at rest for the quarter of a centu- 

r\ -iii' followed. Subsequent agitation has brought us where 

wc are. Th 1793, formed in L r, >"d faith, and lor many 

years executed in good faith, I ad, by rea mt agi- 

tation on the subject of slavery, become inoperative. It de* 

panded tor its execution principally on State magistrates, <>ver 
whom the general government had no control, and who could 

not be required to carry the law into effect, though th.- act 
e them the power, if they chose to exercise it. State 
station also came in to nullity their proceedings, and make 
the law practically a dead letter upon the statute book. This 
defect has been remedied by the new law, which provides for 
the appointment of United States Commissioners, who are to 

4 



exocul State 

• ■ ihe pi • increased from 61 a hundred 

to a thousand doll wrnent 1 

months. It is in principK the same m that 

I only question n<<\\ fellow-citizens, \\ i 

»rt this act with those oth( ; > are 

. named and compi 1 

and honorable, ti enl "t tins distracting 

[f there when men shou 

he i istitutions of the 
. 

. in our 1 
1 I in and 1 1 
1 • Pearce, and 

■ 

that the n 
ent tliroiKjhoui the length and 
• 

duty, 
ant in th< 

mi the 
o| the I 

His 

• 

l" his 
I -•! 

oth ing 
aould 

■ 

A 

■ 

that 
. martry< 

■. 
and it« 



■:. 

that th- land of Wa£ of Jeffe I Marshall — 

the land of the Picki tl eRu • ;e — the land of J ado 

or, should become foreign land t<> us. In the 

; oik- who has given himsell to tl • with a 

the Re- 

, I \ . — -. — "better would it be to die, while the honor 

of ' try is untarnished, aiul the flag ol the Union still 

flying over our heads, than live t>> beh >r- 

d that i' in the dust." (Mr. J. was loudly 

cheered throughout.) 

: ' • called u| □ E. K.. Foa .1 isq. to 

which Judge Poster i •■ ws : 

Pbbsidi ■ I w Citizens : 1 rise t<« respond to 

the call thus made upon ne, not f* making a speech. 

I hi tbility uor the i >n to do so, and 

mikI me, much be than I 

am i 
it. Bui J do 

this meel ig, and 
1 nt i< >ns on t. 
pr d 

dom. I aho ild t to the truth, if 1 hesitated 

to at \ ib- 

• i a 

. I iuld 
it wc -I • , Mui on- 

ten' rd not on ih but in the Ian I of h\o{ 

Sherman, in the land of John Elan . ermont, 

•• Qorth •'■ "ii the subj 

to and maintaining tl • I titution ' In th 

times, when men come forward ms to mo 

our duty to meel i Ithem. But it is asked, 
wba( > gain ? VVI 

impliah by tl »ut 

public sentiment matter. We v •tit 

. sunion, we wish to 
■in ten thousand . • \ \i. I \ i . 

I (Loud applause.) If ,1 i 'He mind must l>- 

made familiar with the di ice to law, it is that 

it may he regarded as a kind of moral treat 
The cry oi infidelity to the I aiw • ion from the I n- 

aacted . until within a 

• time, was heard only from oae small portion ol the cop - 
monity. In 1888, South Carolina, putting herself in an atti- 
tude of hostility to the I 



■•s 

throughout the length and breadth ol the land — nil beliei 
her recreant to the Constitution, recreant to the Union, and 
false to herself. Now, after the lapse ol eighteen years, thi 

nong us, who not only mutter and murmur disun- 
ion sentiments, and resist ince to law, but saj it aloud. It is 
not limjted to any profession — it is found t<> ttenl in 

all. Some of th a whose duty it is to preach the gos- 

pel e and the precepts of our divine savior, instruct 

the fugitive to plunge the knife mt<> the In-art of the offi 
uli" endeavors to arrest him, end carry oat the law! It is 
time to see whether tin-, is right. 

t my parposi into an examination of 

the particular - ■ known as the Compron 

Vfi They have been amply defended. They w< 

turedelil Bcedent- 

ded in my judgment as the President 

ol tli<- United States, and the resolutions <>n \ ..ur table regard 

them. Hut there is a question back of these and reaching far 

v.- th'-m — and that i» the < pn - 1 : < »i i of fidelity t<» the < lonetitu- 

lion, ami submission t<> law. 1 care not bow obnoxioui :i law 

• - o obnoxious that not one citizen in the 

te, wilt give h lor it Ifet if it is passed by those dele- 

y ont ill' I ■ tition in tin- fail exer 

are bound t" obey it .-it all hazards. 

1 1' it is not go, what becomes ol aw ament I What safety 

is tli«-!-- except in tin- obedience to law I If v< can notify and 

Is laws, ' opposed to our wishes, what 

prei ers from doit nothing? And what becomes 

ot our governme I Be •• is no principle I - - ft: 

— what then becomes ol *• • ament f Anarchy m 

necessanlv prevail. vYe have do standing army, and noth 

t ill back upon, but those principles which are the founda- 
tion of law, and government Allow me to say it is easier 
— u how much i oy, than t<> create — to pull 

down than to build up. We may sit here and calculate the 
babilities of the Union, hut k*t on le and it is a 

Union n jer. I wiM rmt say that it might not be coerced 
into lion by I • rnment, but a union that 

- upon force So union can bold the 

An St bnt a union of blood, a onion ol 

aflfe it 

1 d i not propose to detain yu with a speech, hut one i 
lution strikes me with peculiar force — thut which declares 
that the subject of slavery, whatever may be our views on 
particular matters should be consigned to re I >un- 

try id should have repose. And I believe thai th 

who are too conscientious to submit to law here, had bet 



•<» 

remove to some other country better fitted to their inclina- 
tions. (Deaf, fling appauhe.) What is it that men who agi- 
tate this subject aim at ? What would they have ? What 
purpose would thev accomplish ? Ask them — is it the eman- 
cipation of the slave ' No. What then is itl 1' you de- 
sire to interfere with the compact of the Constitution, and 
thus render it valueless } So. What then is it you would 
do ' Is it to benefit thirty millions of white people ' They 
will hardly claim it. What, then, in the name of common 
sense, is it that leads you to distract the country and interfere 
with its prosperity ? If we have those amoi ?ho will 

do this, and be unfaithful lo the compacts and compromises 
of the Constitul noe law does not harmonize 

with their I 1 unapproachable wisdom, I appeal to 

you, whether this is the country for theml On tin- mat- 
ter I desire no dment. I would interfere with the 
rights of no man. I would allow every man liberty to 
express his sentiments, and leave Ins actions uncontrolled, 
holding him ble for both. When he shows a reckless- 
ness of all obligations of a high and binding character, I Bay 
this is not the place for him ; let him go to Canada. (Cheer*) 

We have nothing to do with Blavery. We have noreto do 

with slavery in the States south of the Potomoe than we b 
with slavery in Africa or Spain, or m any other portion ol 
the globe w . any man pretend that th nment under 

which we live is not worthy of our cordial support, admira- 
tion and love ' A we ! 01 literally <"-v.u-.m1 with bli 

g from tl nment our an / tve us ' is 

there a nation on earth whose government can ■ • with it? 

Is not the happiness oi countless nrj riads centered in this gov- 
ernment ' Suppose that bj continn ■ i agitation three millions oi 
slaves might, through the slaughter of their mat I of the 

wive, and children of their n >e broughl into a Mate of 

freedom over the ruin-' of the anion. Is no consideration to 
be given to thirty millioi a ol whites ' I have sympathy for 
everv man, black or while', but I say 1 have as much sympa- 
thy for a white man as for a negro; (laughter) and if the 
question be between three millii i a •'""I thirty mil- 

lions of whites, then I have ten times more. Upon any 
principal, and in any way in winch this Bubjecl can be re- 
rded and looked at, there - madness about the disunion 
Station thai surpasses all comprehension. No, lellow-citi- 
zens, if we would live an united and happy people, we must 
maintain the law, whether it is pleasing to us or not li 
there [a a man here who would have one star struck from our 
glorious flag, or one stripe erased from our banner, I have 
only to say he ought not to be here— in the language of the 



he should take himself elsewhere. II voice — 
id /ii//i to Russia . j ! jet him be anywhere iu 

the heavens but here. He can accomplish no ■_■ I here; 

whether he wou i in \\ hich th 

nueh concerned. Whatever it may cost, when 
tin I - dangered I will be found among those who 

rally for it- preservation, I it may be with other 

ia or elsew h 
d my house, we will be found i.i the path ol duty, 
it i- a m tion i(» h i h an 

timents of such an unworthy speak 
EL are no distinction oi pi or parties; all 

bai • and t-> me it is the haj jht <>l the kind I li i 

. j moral beauty ; and 
ht to vii 
ij our highest adn . . i which ma) be well 

; to reach the moral sublin •■ it Vftei 1 s of 

UDprecedenl u the old political war- 

es,] 

ping hat 

. ited 
1 Constitution and li v. b, | Clu rs.) 

Shall any thins 

1 know that in ( Ion • 

ad right. 1 1 

k 1 1- a rushing without m into this mat- 

-■ill 
will at om 

that tl. 
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1 1 . .. ho 
ed him ha 

I should !i ■ iman had 

• • address th I 

kind to 
■ 1 much from th >e ter) 

and then 

much more agre 

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will inik I they shall I"- only a 

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purpose of deciding the question whether this man or that 
man shall recer tanl office, each of 

whom are equally as well qualified as the other, and neither 
of whom may be qualified at all; But this question not 
only cornier md those who shall come niter as* but 

- es and other lands: for if the sentiments 
Which are engrafted in the resolutions which have been read 
are not susta d faithfully carried out, we may bid adieu 

to (he bl< ih surrounded us and the happy situation 

i ri which we ha placed. Sir. I look to the example 

whichthia counl 8brd to other nations ; I have looked 

to the time when the p ea ot 

examples wh let will be adopted in 

othe i and in other natii - But if the principles which 

.,,-,. idinthes s are not faithfully carried out 

may bid adieu to su fa here- 

after. ' We have n el hen ropinion on certain qu 

! which were had up 1 • », and which at the 

termination ol the last ses ion - d bad been 

finally pettled. Allusion h i made in the manner in 

which C »led ; if ever a Congresa asseml 

which •■ d evil to the country il was that. Allusion 

has been made to the time consumed in the organization of the 
House; when we look a1 the mam tich it wasorganized 

■ acrimon 
i;.,., 9. Membera from the North 

who would not sustain thei onsoi theirparty, 

•h, the n i '' holding 

I bers from the South who re- 

tain nominations of their part) 
om the free States. If this ■.. 

. Jd soon conditi f thinga ' Where would we 

1„. f But. Sir, < s waa finally organized, and a 

the greal men of the nal oth political 

par1 the puT] ose ol rescuing 

the country from the dilemna in which it had been placed, and 
placing it where I before, m ry thing was pros 

r/hrough their efforts, asires, called peaee meast 

md finallj acquiessed in by a majority oi both 

is, and received the signature of tl e P 

I, Sir, lam one of those who are no: only willing to ac- 

, piles. • in them one and all. 'nut I stand here and sa-. they^are 

»ht — and, air, if I had been honored with a -rat in the Con- 

gressofthel 9 . with my present feelinga 1 should 

have voted for every one of them; and done my country some 

service by the vote which I should have given. I ea-t o • 

proach upon those who did not. I say what 1 should have done 



it are iht l 

1 State iree from slavery. Second, the estab* 

territorial governments for Utah and N< M 

• under th um.-ni^ 

ilthoughthis 

so to them, and do Vvilmot I ifted 

iij».-n tin- law which admits them, it may be Baid thai the Al- 

:hty has provided a proviso u dated t-> accomplish 

the than that an) Wilroot could have made (< 

I , rd, the about DisU I 

lamb i- l I w . 

W\ I xaiiiiii.-.i the law and 

the Constitution* 1 I: vith surprise t" see the 

"ii the little "I 

I 

S ' 1 - tins ha miry 

he I th<- inimitable 

• tu- 
ihe United S which was form* 

:, aii_\ country. 
VVnal 
ii held ' 
Si i up t«t the | 

V. . • dm_\ d 

1 ' ll in- 

takes his 
1 Sod that lie will pass 
• the 
1 the 

I 

ct The n ol ti 

. "lit that pr< 

• 

n 

Who 
■■ m men? Menl The 

■ 

■ • rloueeof ( United 5 

in 

• M.ivj h 

■ .VII 

philanthropists w with th- 



hell to carry out the pro isions of the Constitution. 
This law was found ineffectual and : ■ the act of 1850 

w Why was if h 1 ? Wh 

de it ineffectual ' 
It i politicians of both parties who made it in- 

itial. 
I, iik at our State — you I look any farther. Oliver 

tli and K"_ S i with Jonathan 

Trumbull, James la - • 1 1 Rep- 

aid • the law, 

which made it tin- autj : 

"f the I 'in'' S s of the State I its and 

magisti th< and which provided that the 

a State 
1 'irt. or ti • va, and receive a certific 

by a hioh be would rom 

win i ime And wh u In 1 s -'i> by 

an act entitli 
ion 

■ ■ erci- 
I ed a penalty 

of € me to exer- 

\ • .-.In. 

six old attempt 1 I ban Judges, by 

which the I nectual. J>ut in 

i s 1 1 the 

- . 
to the i ' tnded philanthropists, a 

la\'. . but whit 

I hopev Sered to remain there no longer th 

e tf a 
State < knirt, officer under the State 

lha ed by the law of l : 93, and 

that an) certificate issued b) Here was 

ification with a v aullifica- 

out "i the Si I en nullification sur- 

\ iee the powers i ested 

by the I d away by the State, and 

the ■• them being ted to a 

penalty, were noi i Sective. The I oi 1850 was 

1 tlunl< I have Bhowo that the Constitution has pro- 
vided that there shall be such a law, and r »re becoi 
the ilnt; that this provision is carried <>ut. 
All of in itiona of an oath 
to be true and faithful to the < institution of the United Stafc 
and it is our dnt) therefore to see that the law is carried out 
in its spirit and m its letter. Yes, every individual who de- 






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Iram.. Let i look al it for a moment. M S. here went 

k a hundred years, and Bhowed bow in a >rttime 

the this country wen from most loyal and 

. miring 

nst it at the • :*. i * « i life. Tl ag 

the inty-five ye 

for 
tl).- Union, w Ifthe 

tid. dition lii 

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the 

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i Constitution in all 

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38 

here, and he frequents brothels at the head of Long Wharf, or 
the old Liberian. (Laughter.) 

The North has sent to the South its incendiary publications. 
Our Southern brethren have been called cut-throats, and the 
worst of robbers. Is this the way to promote concord ? 
Had you a partner in business, would you allow him to insult 
you and your servants with handbills and newspapers and 
speeches. How long would that partnership exist ? Yet we 
have gone farther. Look at the law of Vermont — look at 
New York and also at Pennsylvania, and tell me if the south 
has not reason to complain. They without cause and without 
motive are quarreling with those who are not only our best 
customers at home, but who give us power and glory abroad. 

Go among the Jews, and the Bible will tell you of a time 
when one tribe bolted because the others relused to give up 
certain fugitives, and became degraded. Go a little farther, 
to the time when Titus battered down the walls of Jerusalem. 
Look at the provinces of Greece, Italy and Germany, domi- 
neered over by every tyrant, and by every superior power. 
{Cheers) If such is their state, what may we expect. We 
must not only resolve, but act — resolutions alone are not suffi- 
cient. They who have sold themselves for a few votes, 
should receive no countenance, and when this is due we have 
not only scotched the snake, but killed him. (Applause.) 

The Rev. Dr. Taylor, Professor of Didactic Theology in 
Yale College was loudly called for, and came forward to ad- 
dress the meeting. He was warmly received, and a death- 
like stillness prevailed, while he delivered the following speech 
in his peculiarly solemn and impressive manner: 

Mr. President and Fellow Citizens: I should be ex- 
tremely happy to say something on this interesting subject, 
that shall subserve, though in a trifling degree, the interests of 
my country. I am happy to be here. I am glad to listen to what 
I have heard, 1 am especially glad to witness this indifference 
to party ties, when the great interests of the nation, as these 
depend upon the spirit of the Constitution and laws of the 
country, are in issue. Long enough has this subject been 
trifled with. Long enough have the enemies of law and order 
had this subject all on their own side, and reasoned it all the 
wrong way. I am therefore most ready to express my hearty 
approbation of the resolutions on your table, and as heartily, 
my unqualified disapprobation of all thos pts to degrade 

that article in our Constitution, upon which so much has been 
said, and to trample on the law, which all northern men are 
bound in good faith t<> stand by and support to the very last. 



{Cheers.) 1 say in good faith ; arid 1 ask if the compact made 
between the Northern and Southern States — independent 
sovereignties as they are — was not a lawful compact ? Had 
not the North interests at stake sullicient to justify them 1 I 
will not go into the question, whether slavery is a sin. Be 
it so, if vou please. Had they not reason, and good reason, 
tor entering into this compact? I will make a supposition: 
suppose Russia with her hordes, combined with Germany, 
Austria, Prussia. France and England, were threatening t<> 
conquer and devastate our country; suppose for our own 
protection and safety, we deem it necessary to enter into an 
alliance with Spain. Now there are slaves in Cuba, and if 
this alliance is made for our protection, Spain says, that some of 
her slaves will get among our people, and our people will not 
deliver them up. War is cominsf, desolation is coming ; it is 
a sin. if vou please, for Spain to have slaves. But may we 
not lawfully, and for our own safety, enter into such a com- 
pact, and agree to deliver up these slaves ? We have not 
made the slavery ; Spain is an independent State ; and slave- 
rv there is made by her own local laws — made in the exercise 
of her own sovereignty. They are laws, therefore, which, so 
far as we are concerned, she has a right to make, and for 
which, we have not the slightest responsibility. Whether 
she has this right so far as her responsibility to the Judge of 
all the earth is concerned, is another question. But so far as 
we are concerned, she has a right to make these laws. And 
now. if she makes laws, which are wrong, can we make no 
lawful treaty, — no compact, with her, which will bind the 
parties \ What? may I not buy a piece of meat of a butch- 
er, because he is profane .' -May I not make contracts with 
men whose characters, in some respect, are marred by immo- 
rality I May I not consult my own safety by numerous acts 
o\' a defensive and confederate character, because the men, 
who are engaged with me, are not as good as I wish they 
were ? Is this the principle in neighborhoods ? Will it do 
in the family '. Will it do better among nations ? What 
right have we to make, or unmake laws for the Southern 
States: or to say, that if the laws, which they make for 
themselves, and have, so far as we are concerned, a right to 
make, do not meet our approbation, we will not stand by a 
lawful compact, which we have made with them \ W ill the 
Northern States incur the guilt and the infam} of violating 
such a compact for such a reason ? I am the friend of slaves ; 
I am sorry for slaves ; I wish them w. 11 with all my heart and 
soul: and as I wish them well. I say — cease these agita- 
tions. Who at. the North are the friends of the slaves I The 
agitators of this subject do mire to injure the slaves and per- 



40 

petuale their chains at the South, than their true friends can 
do to terminate the evil of slavery for half a century. (Cheers.) 

I have another question to ask : — What right to protection, 
do fugitive slaves acquire at the North? Every right im- 
plies a reciprocal obligation. The right of the creditor im- 
plies the obligation of the debtor. But under what obligation 
are we at the North, to protect fugitives from slavery at the 
South ? We are already bound by a lawful compact to de- 
liver them up. What right have they to ask us to violate 
this compact? What right have they to come here, and 
claim our protection, when by affording it, we violate a law- 
ful compact, and endanger the existence of such a nation as 
this ? Am I bound to receive into my family, and to protect 
and support every man or woman whose condition would 
thereby be improved, be the consequences to the well-being 
of my family what they may ? Who does not know that 
Northern protection to the few slaves who escape, directly 
tends to prolong and augment the bondage of those that re- 
main ? Fidelity to our compacts, and the execution of law 
in the fulfilment of such compacts, mutual confidence and the 
love of a common country, — not disunion, and turmoil, and 
civil war — are indispensable to the slightest hope of the ter- 
mination of slavery. What right then have fugitive slaves 
to the protection of the North, which imposes on us an obli- 
gation to violate our plighted faith, to do what we can to pro- 
long and aggravate southern bondage, and to plunge a na- 
tion into ruin ? 

Sir, there is one great truth, which all are slow to learn ; 
that every earthly condition is a choice of evils ; and hence, 
the lesson of submission, till at least a change for the better 
instead of for the worse, can be made. Why should not the 
slaves at the South submit to the condition, which Providence 
has assigned them I Their condition is a thousand fold better 
than it would have been, in the pagan midnight and savage- 
ism of their native land. Why should they not be grateful 
for its blessings, and submissive to its evils, till by some prac- 
ticable change, it can be made better instead of immeasurably 
worse ? We may, we do, most sincerely commiserate their 
condition as compared with a better. We wish and pray, 
that it may be made ten thousand times better. Mr. Presi- 
dent, I have a heart, and hands also ; and show me a right, 
and lawful, and practicable way, of terminating slavery 
or alleviating its evils, and with all this heart, and with both 
these hands, I am ready for the work. But, sir, are mere 
feelings, without judgment, even the feelings of compassion and 
of sympathy for human suffering, lovely as they are, to sway 
us, in despite of reason and conscience, and to lead us not 



11 

, to augment the very evil we deprecate, but to drench 
our beloved country with fraternal blood ? Is this the sober 
dictate of the New England conscience, or is it the prompt- 
ing of mad fanaticism '. 

As to the higher-law principle : — You expect me to admit, 
of course, that we are all the subjects of Him who reigns 
amid the grandeurs and glory of eternity, and that when his 
will is known, that we as moral beings are bound to submit. 
There is no question on that point ; here is the point — is that 
article in our Constitution contrary to the will of God — con- 
trary to the law of nature, of nations and the will of God ? Is 
it so ? Is there a shadow of reason for saying it is ? I have 
not been able to discover it. Is it not manifestly right to de- 
liver up fugitive slaves, for the preservation of the great, the 
momentous interests of these States? And if this be so, is 
it not in accordance with right and duty, as well as with the 
Constitution, to make a law providing for that result? Is 
there any law of God or of nature against this ? Is there 
any law of God, against keeping lawful compacts ? Is there 
any law of God against doing those things which every man 
must do, or cause greater evil by not doing them ? I do not 
so understand it. I do not understand what sort of sin that 
is, which consists in not making a bad state of things im- 
measurably worse. 

When 1 learned in the newspapers the novel doctrine that 
the Constitution of my country was in conflict with the law 
of my Maker — when I first learned it, I said to myself, is it 
possible, that from the high places of legislation — from the 
very hall of the Senate, a man in the exalted and honorable 
position, whence his voice is heard by all the people, ventures to 
propound such a doctrine as this ? The thought struck me. 
that perhaps he was not counting without his host ; perhaps I 
was but imperfectly informed ; perhaps at the North there is 
a degree of infatuation and fanaticism of which 1 had not 
dreamed. In these visions of my fears, I felt very much as if 
I had heard a summons to rebellion ; I felt very much as if I 
had heard the cry of revolt sounding through the land, and en- 
tering every dwelling, and seen the standard of revolt waving 
on every hill. It seemed like Revolution, desolating our hap- 
py homes, with its carnage and blood. And, sir, there is no 
want of tendency in that doctrine to give full reality to these 
anticipations and these forebodings. Let the doctrine be in- 
culcated — let it be believed at the North — let the northern 
conscience, whether perverted or unperverted, receive such a 
doctrine, and what may we expect 1 We may expect rebel- 
lion and intestine war. And when I think of the morality, 
the ethics of this subject in our religious newspapers, and in 

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■ en up t<< th' 

1 I tn 1 1 k ln>\\ little truth anil aiu'ti 

upon wl 
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storm ; I hope 1 am 

luit I think the pi i 1 <:•' think ih it we 

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\w; nark, Mr. President, that if it w 

it would rtate that I ha 

Law, and com- 

1 u with the Const 3t es, and 1 

•hat it ia i.. I will farther -ay that I 

that all further ns are i mt 

and ought to be dropped. I have 1- nth pleai 

the resolution* which h illy approve of 

I should « -''I he 

fully, 1 
will say, th that the eiti- 

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I ; I • ;• ■••: er 

that the ' 

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better known 

South thai 
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but we h ed 

a man here 
w ho would • 

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feniusofoor 

- they do, 

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i slavery in the 

re no n 

S iutl ( rolina, than 

with Bla \ 9 Does ii ;■ right 

to i lered into a v " oo 

hat ,rt - 

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any right to with your portne irrange- 

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family 

ed int( lip with i 

tut ion air. mutual I 

t!i the 
South ' i than we had i 

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nis shinii .nine philanthropy 

the whole; I ask then, is this true phi- 
lanthi face of the 

when a nation had e. >pportunity as ours novt 

I. ifc at its extern 
— reaching • north to the firo- 

1 on the Bouth to the torrid zone ! He 
■ all the i • the worl . 

Would it be philanthropic to 
>f all Europe 

: til.- opj 

' 'r if they 

than 

the philan- 

■ that . >le human i I mtinue atl 

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I I this 

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I who 

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South ? 
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v:ition, those i t acts of i termed the compromise 

measures (Ckeert.) The resolutions of this meeting, 1 

understand them from iding this evenin i thes* 

purposes, and then sommend themselves to oui 

approbation. I ihould be glad if there was time for me to 

i ol these me omewhat in detail. Although many 

in.i\ differ upon son* - of them, yel there can be 

- -nti.il differ pinion upon the great and important 

that have 1 gather this evening, ( \;>- 

I the luitliinl support of tins com pro 

and tl ■•.'■-, proper \\ en thing 

I IM<»n ; 

winch i not only ol our- 

• . . bat <»t" the whole numan ra 

our fathers, and I 
us — if wen 
:\ to the i n 
vhoform- 
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from the 

down 

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South were aiming at disunion, ai;< i were seeking e the 

union men to the wall. Then all my sympathies becai 
ed for the latter, and I felt that \ them, not oply to 

the way of their success, hut also 

to aid them directly by every honorable means within our 

reach, and lly we ass propose to do to- 

night that we intend to keep inviolate our obligations to our 

States. 

proper that the Union men of C iculd re- 

spond to the fraternal sentiments of the Union men of the 
South ; for our gl< i Stal 'rue to the princi- 

ples of the Revolutioi ad to the Union of the 

Though s< of no -I battle fields, yet 

we know that the blood of our troops in the war of Indepen- 

the clash of arms 
had been n< B ker Hill to Yorktown. {Loud ap- 

plause.) No State - 
men or means to achieve our freedom than I icut. 

Our Independen i our Constitution estab- 

lished by ' Sor\ I en of the South. 

Let us ever cherish the the sym- 

pathies which common d ommon have 

dered. In the Ian the poet may we 

inquii 

• 

:t twain the starry •' 

In c ■• let us ■•[• that •■ rpetuate 

Lisbrty, without holding I In the thrilling 

• 
guage « hich has Ion o im- 

n my memory and on my heart, and is doubtle 
1 1 1 i I i ; 1 1 to say from the lepths 

of lus s )til — •• When my eyes sh all be turned for the last time 
to behold the sun in the heavens, may I not behold him shining 
on the broken and d »rious 

Union — on States cordant, belligerenl — on a 

land rent with civil feuds, and drenched, it maybe, in fraternal 
id." 

Let their last . lingering, glance rather behold the gor- 

is ensign of the Republic, known and hoi 

throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and 

trophies streaming in their original lustre — nol a stripe e 

or polluted — nor I ir obscured — bearing for its motto 

ich miserabl* " What is all this worth ?" 

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